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Cardiac Sarcoma: Unusual Cause of Intracardiac Contrast Filling Defect

A 28-year-old female was transferred to the emergency department from her physician’s office for further evaluation of tachycardia. She was being seen for a recent illness which included nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and fevers. The patient endorsed fatigue, dyspnea on exertion, and extremity edema. Sh...

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Autores principales: Cleveland, Nathan J., Beckmann, Melissa
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, Irvine School of Medicine 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3966456/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24672594
http://dx.doi.org/10.5811/westjem.2013.12.20576
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description A 28-year-old female was transferred to the emergency department from her physician’s office for further evaluation of tachycardia. She was being seen for a recent illness which included nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and fevers. The patient endorsed fatigue, dyspnea on exertion, and extremity edema. She had no chest pain or cough. Exam revealed a pale, fatigued, mildly ill-appearing female with bilateral lower extremity edema and diminished breath sounds on the right. Chest radiograph revealed a large right pleural effusion (Figure 1). Computed tomographic angiography of the chest was performed (Figure 2).
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spelling pubmed-39664562014-03-26 Cardiac Sarcoma: Unusual Cause of Intracardiac Contrast Filling Defect Cleveland, Nathan J. Beckmann, Melissa West J Emerg Med Diagnostic Acumen A 28-year-old female was transferred to the emergency department from her physician’s office for further evaluation of tachycardia. She was being seen for a recent illness which included nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and fevers. The patient endorsed fatigue, dyspnea on exertion, and extremity edema. She had no chest pain or cough. Exam revealed a pale, fatigued, mildly ill-appearing female with bilateral lower extremity edema and diminished breath sounds on the right. Chest radiograph revealed a large right pleural effusion (Figure 1). Computed tomographic angiography of the chest was performed (Figure 2). Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, Irvine School of Medicine 2014-03 /pmc/articles/PMC3966456/ /pubmed/24672594 http://dx.doi.org/10.5811/westjem.2013.12.20576 Text en Copyright © 2014 the authors. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/.
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title Cardiac Sarcoma: Unusual Cause of Intracardiac Contrast Filling Defect
title_full Cardiac Sarcoma: Unusual Cause of Intracardiac Contrast Filling Defect
title_fullStr Cardiac Sarcoma: Unusual Cause of Intracardiac Contrast Filling Defect
title_full_unstemmed Cardiac Sarcoma: Unusual Cause of Intracardiac Contrast Filling Defect
title_short Cardiac Sarcoma: Unusual Cause of Intracardiac Contrast Filling Defect
title_sort cardiac sarcoma: unusual cause of intracardiac contrast filling defect
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3966456/
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